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Patented July 29, 1947 UNITED ObCllbll in.

STATES PATENT OFFICE Application October 21, 1946, Serial No. 704,667 In Canada May 31, 1946 1 Claim.

This invention refers to improvements in and relating to ash tray structure.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a device of the character wherein cigarettes, cigars and smoking pipes may all be placed in and accommodated by a single tray.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a device of this character wherein the cigarettes and cigars are supported in independent channels or grooves and wherein the grooves are of sufficient depth to partly embrace and hold the lighted cigarettes or cigars in the holder and at the same time restrict the supply of oxygen to the lighted portion which will slow down and finally extinguish the lighted end thereof.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a device of this character with abrasive surfaces for the convenient striking of matches.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide a device of this character wherein the central portion of the ash tray is provided with a series of spaced relatively deep grooves so that glowing ashes from pipe tobacco falling therein obtain only a limited supply of oxygen and thus quickly extinguish themselves.

Yet a further object of the present invention is to provide a device of this character wherein the ash tray may be conveniently rotated in its supporting stand.

Having regard to the foregoing and other objects and advantages which will become apparent as the description proceeds and the details become known, the invention consists essentially in the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described in more particular detail and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view disclosing an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a. fragmentary side elevational view of a portion of the cigarette supporting section of the ash tray.

Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1 showing the tray mounted on a stand.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation view of the ash tray looking from the right hand side of Fig. 1, the ash tray being shown as detached from its supporting stand.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of a modified form of the ash tray shown in detached form.

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary side elevational view of the cigarette supporting portion of the ash tray.

2 Fig. 7 is a section taken on the line 'll of Fig. 5, and,

Fig. 8 is a side elevational view of Fig. 5 as seen from the right hand side thereof.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings disclosing an embodiment of the present invention and wherein like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in the various illustrations, the numeral l5 indicates the ash tray as a whole while the numeral I6 indicates the supporting stand for the tray.

As observed in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, the ash tray includes a body member preferably circular in form with the upper surface thereof segmentally subdivided into spaced sections l1, l8, I9, 20 and 2| with a central ash receiving section 22. The sections l8 and I9 comprise a series of grooves or channels 23 for receiving cigars, the channels having a relative depth greater than the diameter of a cigar with vertical spacing walls 23a extending upwardly a corresponding height.

The sections 20 and 2| above referred to comprise a series of channels or grooves 24 for the reception of cigarettes, the channels having a relative depth greater than the diameter of a cigarette with vertical spacing walls 240. extending upwardly a corresponding height, a cigarette being shown on the tray in dotted lines at 25 in Fig. 1. The center section or ash receiving portion 22 comprises a series of annular grooves 26 of no lesser depth than the channels 23 and 24, spaced correspondingly by walls 26a, and are designed to receive the ashes from cigars, cigarettes or pipes as the case may be.

The relatively deep channels and relatively high spacing walls for the cigars, cigarettes and the pipe ashes, previously mentioned, are designed to restrict the supply of oxygen to the lighted object and thus the lighted portion will quickly become extinguished.

Centrally of the ash receiving section 22 I provide a vertically extending center-post 21 provided with a central orifice 28 and preferably covered with rubber or other resilient material 29. The center-post serves two purposes, first, it may be employed as a handle for lifting the ash tray and second, it may be used as a striking object when it is desired to knock ashes from a pipe, the opening 28 serving to lessen the tension on member 29.

As best illustrated in Figs. 1 and 5, the upper surface of the four segmental sections H are either roughened or coated with a suitable abrasive material in order that a match may conveniently be struck thereon without interfering with cigars or the like in the tray.

By reference to Figs. 1 and 2, it will be observed that the outer peripheries of the cigarette holding sections 20 and 21 are provided with recesses or indents as indicated at 30 and 3|. These recessed indent enable the cigarettes to be placed within the channels or grooves 24 free of the outer rim of periphery of the tray so that while the cigarette may conveniently be picked up by hand, it will be prevented from being knocked 011 the tray by a person brushing past the side of the tray.

In addition to the foregoing, the ends of the recessed portions 30 and 3| terminate in vertical wall portions 32 for finger engagement for rotating the ash tray as will presently be described.

The supporting stand |6, previously mentioned, is provided with base 34, supporting stand or post 35 and holder 36, the holder-being of cuplike form as indicated at 31. Arranged around the-interior of the tray in a suitably formed race is a series of ball bearings 38 and it is upon these ball bearings that the tray [5 is adapted to be rotatably mounted on the supporting stand I6.

In order that the ash tray may not be readily dislodged from the support, except by direct vertical lift, the tray I5 is adapted to extend down into the cupped portion 31 of the holder 36 while the annular shoulder 40 extending around the base of the tray provides a ball race therefor. In order to rotate the ash tray, all that is necessary to do is to press the finger against 'surfacei32 when the tray will rotate while the stand remains stationary.

In the modification shown in Figs. 5 to 8 inclusive, the ash tray is exemplified in a smaller scale than that disclosed in Figs. 1 to 4 while the center post 21 has been eliminated from the modified form of device.

From the foregoing it will be seen that I provide a novel, simple and eflicient ash tray and support wherein cigars, cigarettes or pipes are conveniently and separately accommodated, wherein the supply of oxygen to the burning tobacco is restricted, matches may be lighted on the abrasive portions and the tray may be rotated in the supporting stand.

M we n Many changes may be made in the above and many apparently widely different embodiments constructed without departing from the spirit or the essential characteristics of the invention. It is intended therefore that the present disclosure is illustrative rather than restrictive and that all changes coming within the range and equivalency of the claim are intended to be embraced therein.

What I claim as my invention is:

In an ash tray comprising a standard, a receptaclerotaTablymounted on the standard and having a central h receiving ortion, and an annular portion for supporting smoking articles, said annular portion having therein smoking article W15, some of which are Io'figer than others, and intermediate the longer and shorter channels a wall member having faces on opposite sides thereof, one of the faces constituting a wall of a shorter channel and the'other face constituting the wall of a longer channel, said first named face extending outwardly from the adjacent channel and inwardly so as to provide a recess in the wall of the-,- intermediate portion, and said recess having a bottom spaced from the bottom of the smaller channel whereby a finger of the operator placed in saidrecess will be adapted to rotate the ash tray without said finger contacting the channels for the smoking articles.

WALTER J ORK.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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